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December 15, 2007

Urban decay, pigs on mopeds, & other good photos

Art collective Henry VIII’s Wives uses elderly Glaswegians to re-enact iconic photos of the 20th century. Triiippy… My wife says she’d really like to hear the conversations between the photographer & the pensioners. ("Yeah, so there was this little girl who got burned by napalm, and we want you to play her!") [Via]

The lego recreations reminded me of or indeed may have been inspired by the labour of love that is the Brick Testament, created by the Reverend Brendan Powell Smith blog.
Quite literal retelling of stories in Lego, yet somehow a bit irreverent at the same time!
From the Reverend’s blog
“Join along as David disenfranchises the original inhabitants of Jerusalem, expresses his hatred for the blind and lame, impregnates many different women, and exposes himself before God. While God, for his part, demands war on the Philistines and kills a man just for touching the ark.”
Reductio ad absurdum.